Inside the Sewing Machine

Over the winter holidays, we did a lot of take-apart here at the museum. Tons of old audio equipment, toys, printers… and a sewing machine! I had a great team of four kids helping me get that stubborn front off. It really didn’t want to go! We recently replaced this machine with a newer one, and thought we’d keep the old one around to help explain what’s happening on the inside.

You can move your cursor over the gray rectangles to find out a little bit more about the different parts. You can hide the boxes by clicking the speech bubble at the bottom of the video.